What's on your menu (Tuesday)

When I travel, I always go to the museums. I would love to go to that Phallological Museum. But I also love more local museums. There is one by my house that they used as part of the underground railway. There is still a tunnel that ran from the river to the basement of the house. They would keep the slaves in that basement until it was a good day to drive up to Lake Erie and take them across to Canada.

One of the museums here is for the Packard Automobile. There is letter there from on of Wright brothers who was trying to get one of the Packard brothers to buy an airplane. The letter written back by James Packard said that he did not believe there would ever by any use for their new-fangled flying machine.

In Kokomo, Indiana there is a museum with the stuffed carcass of Old Ben, the world's largest cow. He was 6.5 feet tall and 16 feet long. Kokomo also has the Crysler museum. Mr Crysler had a set of stainless steel tableware made for his wife because she did not like to polish silver. We have a museum in town dedicated to women's suffrage and one with a tree in the basement that is full of arrows from an early Ohio Indian war. There is a museum in Moundsville, WV. In the 14th century Moundsville was America's largest city north of Mexico. The museum is full of archeological artifacts from that period.

Those sound like some very cool places! I didn't realize Moundsville was in West Virginia; I've heard of it but I just ssumed it was in the midwest, near the Cahokia Mounds! It would be very cool to see!